HI all, I don't know what you all are up to a Friday night. But I am watching Twitter, reflection on OpenPCR and lo and behold, speak of the Open Science Conference (OSCON) Eri flew by. It's great, and I recommend you check it out, and OpenPCR made a live appearance. Video below!
Join Eri Gentry, BioCurious founder, first "hackerspace in the world for biology" on a journey of biology of garage at the laboratory of the community.
For the first time, serious biological research can be done at home. The decreasing costs of biotech material came a growing community of amateur biologists. The most common name for this group is "DIYbio" (DIY Biology), a 2,000 more than group of scientists, students, engineers, artists and the entpreneurs, whose area of interest to learn how genetic testing works to completely revise the ivory tower which is scientific research.
Full description in the OSCON.com
Also, Paul + the Hackerspace in Melbourne in Australia friends are assembling kits OpenPCR 1 or 2 that you read this. Paul mentions a UStream / Google + discussion, so stay tuned! See Twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/search/openpcr) and discuss on the OpenPCR Google Group.